Chicago "State's Attorney" who claimed to have recused herself from Smollett case lied, dismisses 16 felony counts

When does a word not mean what it's always meant before?

Answer:  When a corrupt District Attorney (or any politician) wants to undermine justice and make a corrupt ruling.

Today the word in question is "recusal."  As many of you know, when a DA or judge has a screamingly obvious conflict of interest in a case, every ethical code demands they "recuse" themselves from any decision-making regarding that case.

In the case of hate-crime-hoaxer Jussie Smollett, the "State's Attorney" (what most of would call a DA) for Cook county, IL (i.e. Chitcongo), Kim Foxx, talked with Smollett's family early on.  This was a screamingly big no-no, so she said she was "recusing herself" from the case.

Prosecutors went on to charge Smollett with not one, not two, but sixteen felonies related to his outrageous lie about being attacked by two men he claimed were wearing Trump-supporter hats.  Investigators had found two Nigerian brothers who admitted working with Smollett to fake the crime, and video of them buying the same type of rope Smollett claimed the attackers had tied around his neck.

The brothers claimed Smollett had paid them $3500 for their part in the hoax.  Sure enough, investigators found a check to them from Smollett for that amount.  The case against the Smollett was looking like a slam-dunk conviction.

That was before DA Kim Foxx got a call from Michelle Obama's chief of staff, Tina Tchen.  Suddenly Foxx--who had previously said she was recusing herself from the case--took control, and not only dismissed every single charge against the lying, race-hate-fanning rat-bastard Smollett, but also sealed the entire case file investigators had compiled!

Wait...hadn't Foxx (a black woman) recused herself from the case just a couple of weeks earlier?

Well that's what she SAID.  But when conneccted people are involved, statements have a funny way of becoming...inoperative.

So what happened to "I'm recusing myself from the case"?  Foxx's office has now released a statement that you may think is so brazenly outrageous in its contempt for the law and truth that you'll think it's satire:  The statement--in an email to Chicago Tribune reporter John Kass--is:

“The State’s Attorney did not formally recuse herself or the Office based on any actual conflict of interest.  As a result, she did not have to seek the appointment of a special prosecutor under (state law).”

“Although we use the term ‘recuse’ as it relates to State’s Attorney Foxx’s involvement in the matter, it was a colloquial use of the term rather in its legal sense.”

In other words, when State's Attorney Foxx claimed earlier to have recused herself....well, that may not have been, you know, precisely true.  In fact it wasn't true at all.  Wait, that doesn't sound good.  How about this: As former president Clinton famously dodged in his videotaped deposition in a lawuit claiming he'd sexually assaulted a woman (oh, you young gals didn't know about that?  Hmmmm.....), "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

In the case of State's Attorney Kim Foxx's statement "I am recusing myself from the case," her office is claiming that the seemingly unequivocal statement "I am recusing myself" actually has a second possible meaning in addition to the obvious one.  The other is the total opposite of the normal meaning, which the office is calling the "colloquial use of the term."

See?  Really, citizen, it's quite simple.  Words mean exactly what we Democrats want them to mean, and if that conflicts with what your tiny brains think, well, that's too bad.

So following this "logic," if a Democrat politician or official were to make a false statement to the FBI, for example, the speaker could avoid any charges of lying to the FBI by simply saying "When I said I didn't know anything about X, it was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense."

Is that cool or what?

But of course this only works if you're a member of the Democrat party.  If you're not, don't bother trying this "it was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense" defense.  Cuz they'll laugh at you, and then put you in jail.

Cuz, see, words have certain meanings.  Unless you're a Democrat "State's Attorney" in Crook county, Chitcongo.  Or Washington D.C.

Oh, and one more thing:  The files on the Smollett case that was quickly and mysteriously sealed?  Kim Foxx has now said--implausibly--that they were "sealed by mistake."  Seriously.  In an interview Wednesday night, Foxx claimed that the Cook County Prosecutor's Office did NOT persuade a judge to seal the records, and that the file was sealed "inadvertently" and was in the process of being unsealed.

Cuz, you know, judges just spontaneously seal records when they're bored or somethin'.  Hey, happens all the time, citizen!

H/T Daily Wire.